Word: sprang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally brave, reckless by nature, the War showed him up to the best advantage. At one time a Serbian detachment was menaced by a strong Austrian force. The Prince sprang to the head of the dispirited troops and called upon them to advance, but the men, not recognizing him, hesitated. The Prince turned, roared: "Men, I am George of Serbia. All those who are not afraid, follow me. Charge!" Defeat was changed into victory, but the Prince was seriously wounded...
...entire Chamber, excepting the Communists, sang Giovinnezza, Fascist war song; and, as the final words became an echo, the Communists yelled: "Long live Communism!" The Fascisti smiled, cheered and clapped .the appreciative Mussolini. Once again rang out the provocative cry: "Long live Communism!" A Fascist became unnerved, sprang into the midst of the 15 Communist Deputies, lashing out with both fists. It was the signal for a free fight and the Chamber became a mad mass of sprawling men, jumbled arms and legs...
More adept than even Darius were the Romans in exploiting the curious raptures which affect men upon seeing great animals loose and hungry. Their circuses sprang up, like huge granite toadstools, in every shamble of the later Empire. After they had observed the antics of the Huns who invaded Italy in the Fifth Century, however, the Romans' appetite for watching wild beasts at play disappeared. The brave days of the circus ended. Only in the last 100 years did circusing come back to honor as a profession. Last week, with many blazing announcements, the Ringling-Barnum Circus came...
Since the War, Germany has been enduring the birth-pangs of a new political order. Reaction against the Hohenzollerns threatened to throw the nation, with Russia, into the Soviet regime. Then from Bavaria sprang the counter-reaction that has fought persistently against the new republican government. Some of the chief war leaders have been the nominees of this party. Its fortunate failure was symbolized in this last election by the total of four votes cast for Emperor William...
...that her mashie shots were bounding too hard across the greens. The gallery marveled. Such golf would never win for her against a sturdy opponent. They looked curiously at the little-famed Miss Hadfield. But as for her ball, it looped in even stranger parabolas from her putter, sprang from her cleek in bounds even more rash. Miss Collett won, "3 and 2." Next day she defeated Miss Cummings...